From:	"Patrick R. White" <patwhite AT interaccess DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP - General Protection Exceptions
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:20:55 -0500
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C:\Program Files\Bin>gcc -v
Reading specs from d:/djgpp/lib/specs
gcc version 2.8.1

C:\Program Files\Bin>dir con*

 Volume in drive C has no label
 
CONVERT   C		551	08-14-98  11:34pm convert.c

C:\Program Files\Bin>gcc convert.c -o convert.exe_

Approximte MS DOS box contents:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
MS DOS Prompt
This program has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated.
Quit all programs, and then restart your computer.

The program encountered a general protection exception.

Fault location:		0297:0044

Interrupts in service:	1
------------------------------------------------------------------------


One time gcc -v works and then it crashes trying to compile a small C
program like above.  Somtimes it crashes on the -v line without reading
the environment file while other times it seems to read it and stop
after printing out 'gcc version 2.8.1' or not, it isn't even consistent.
I've checked that I have installed all the required executables
according to the readme.1st.  If I reboot only to DOS, I can compile it
but I can't run it because I don't have access to the Cwsdpmi.exe
program.  I try running autoexec.bat to get the proper path but Win95
doesn't allow any changes to its limited DOS environment.  I don't care
though because I'd rather run it in a DOS window anyway.

This is an approximate image of a bitmap I included in previous article.
Any ideas?

TIA
Patrick

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